CoSM EVENTS FEBRUARY 2007

Integral Anatomy: Rare Visions of Human Form
Presentation/Discussion/Slideshow
with Gil Hedley, Ph.D.

Friday Feb. 9th, 7-9:30pm
Admission: $15
Location: Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM)

With slides from the laboratory and engaging discussion, this program is an opportunity to transform your experience of your body and your whole self through an integral, whole person approach to human anatomy.

Gil Hedley, Ph.D., has taught human anatomical dissection to bodyworkers, dancers, artists and others for 12 years, based upon his whole body, layer by layer approach to human form. He is the founder and director of Somanautics Workshops, Inc., offering a Six-Day Intensive Hands-On Human Dissection Workshop nationwide and abroad. Gil is also the producer/director of The Integral Anatomy Series, a multi-part DVD series that brings the viewer directly into the lab with Gil to explore the wonders of human form and to apply these discoveries in professional practice. Please visit www.gilhedley.com for information on Hedley's schedule and series.

The presentation at CoSM will encompass the interests of folks with no knowledge of anatomy, as well as more experienced explorers of human form. The images of whole body dissections are powerful and sometimes intense though sensitively presented. Participants should be willing to be challenged a bit.

Saturday, February 10th 6:30 pm.

Join Alex as he walks through the gallery
with visitors and talks about the artwork
and the Chapel space.

Purchasing in advance guarantees admission.

SoulFire@CoSM

February 16th 8p.m. - 3a.m.

8:30p.m. - 9:30p.m.
Drum Class with Mz. imani

10 p.m. - 3 a.m. Soulfire Drum and Dance

CoSM, home to the artwork of Alex Grey, is dedicated to the Awakening Heart of Humanity, and has quickly formed a dynamic vortex in NYC.  The poly-rhythmic portal of Soulfire@CoSM offers our kindred tribe a night to rekindle the flames of connection by exploring neo-shamanic collaborative art and rhythm.  Soulfire rejuvenates the sacred in community by tending to the fires of the collective and creative muse.

MICROCoSM GALLERY Presents:


OLIVER VERNON


MicroCoSM Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of new works by New York artist Oliver Vernon.

Opening reception:
Thursday, February 15th, 6-8pm.

Each of Oliver Vernon’s paintings is a uniquely painted world depicting the simultaneity of microcosmic and macrocosmic perspectives, and exploring themes of biology, physics, mythology and ancient visionary wisdom paths. The use of mandalic symmetry in his work comes from years of study and practice of yoga and meditation. Attuned to the eternal, Vernon’s mantric repetition of patterns in his painting becomes an act of spiritual devotion, awakening perceptions of the infinite.... (more)

Initiation into the Visionary World
Conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck and Alex Grey

Saturday, Feb. 24th 2007 8pm

Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the
Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of
Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of
Quetzalcoatl. He has written features for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, Harper's Bazaar, The Village Voice, Salon, and many other publications.

Daniel is one of the founders of Open City, an art and
literary journal, and an independent book publisher.
His LSD experiences inspired him to travel to Nepal
and India, where he visited Tibetan Buddhist
monasteries and the sacred Hindu festival Kumbh Mehla. He studied shamanism and the magical plants used inrituals.